She refused reconstructive surgery after suffering breast cancer and undergoing a double mastectomy.

And she posed for topless shots – to tell women they don't have to fear what they might look like if they too refuse the surgery.

Jai, 52, is now two years post-surgery and feels more confident and sassy than ever.

“I feel so attractive and feminine,” said the mum-of-three, of Pontardawe, near Swansea.

“I felt like a boy for the first year after my surgery with no hair and no boobs, but now I feel fabulous.

“I want other women to see what they might look like if they don’t have reconstruction and not to fear it.”

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This is despite a cruel stranger asking Jai if she was in the right bathroom in a restaurant.

“She asked me what I was doing in the ladies, but I just turned to her and said, ‘It’s cancer, you miserable woman’,’” Jai, previously a 34B cup, recalled.

Jai in 2016 (Photo: PA Real Life)

(Photo: PA Real Life)

Diagnosed with invasive lobular breast cancer in April 2014, after noticing a ridge on her left breast, Jai – who is married to survey company director Richard, 54 – had gone to her GP thinking it was nothing.

She was then horrified to learn – after a number of mammograms and ultrasounds – she had several small tumours, measuring 5cm in total, in her left breast.

Medics said her right breast was also presenting in a similar way and advised both were removed.

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She had a six -hour surgery at Singleton Hospital, Swansea, to remove both her breasts, before having four months of chemotherapy. Jai turned down radiotherapy.

Jai in a picture taken while she was having chemotherapy (Photo: PA Real Life)

Doctors offered her the chance to have her breasts reconstructed at the same time as the mastectomy, but she also declined.

Jai, before she was diagnosed with cancer (Photo: PA Real Life)

Jai and her husband Richard three years ago (Photo: PA Real Life)

(Photo: PA Real Life)

For her, it was an easy decision to make and she had the full support of her husband and her three kids.

“I told the doctor to just get rid of the cancer – and remove the breasts,” Jai said. “That’s all you can do when you get this diagnosis.”

Jai, while not critical of people who opt to have their breasts reconstructed, decided the surgery was not for her.

“It would be a constant reminder of what I had lost, you can’t pretend these breasts are yours,” she said.